How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler
Deathbound by Heather Palmer
Can't Spell Treason without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
Idolfire by Grace Curtis
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
Sword of the Guardian by Shannon Merry
Post-Apocalypse
American War by Omar El Akkad
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Fireman by Joe Hill
Science-Fiction
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee
Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne
Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin
Non-Fiction
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam
University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education by Joshua Hunt
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega
Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol Adams
Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women by Lyz Lenz
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson
Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control by Amanda Montei
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Matt Richardson
A Feministâs Guide to ADHD: How Women Can Thrive and Find Focus in a World Built for Men by Janina Maschke
Black Rage: Two Black Psychiatrists Reveal the Full Dimensions of the Inner Conflicts and the Desperation of Black Life in the United States by William H. Grier
The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth Flock
Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity by Lisa Walker
Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer by Nancy Levit & Rob Verchick
Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History by Klaus Theweleit
Zeros and Ones by Sadie Plant
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes DuMez
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr
Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror by Matt Kennard
Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist by Patrick McGilligan
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray
Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances by Stith Thompson
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carol Boyce Davies
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses by OyĂšrĂłnkáșčÌ OyÄwĂčmĂ
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
The Second Shift by Arlie Russell Hochschild
But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha Gloria Hull
The Gender Knot: Unraveling Our Patriarchal Legacy by Allan G. Johnson
A History of Masculinity by Ivan Jablonka
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serrano
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase by Mark Forsyth
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture by Andrew Dewaard
The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven: Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection by Mark W. Driscoll
Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life by Stephen Parker
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini
Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel by Lawrence Block
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attentionâ and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari
This Sex Which is Not One by Luce Irigaray
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe
Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Memoir
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman
Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark by Cassandra Peterson
Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on TikTok by Oliver James
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White
Plain English for Lawyers by Richard C. Wydick
Essays
Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gubra
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by CherrĂe L. Moraga & Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Visual And Other Pleasures by Laura Mulvey
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Ursula K. Le Guin
"the undertow" by Astrid
"Infinite midwit" by Adam Mastroianni
"How to train your brain to stop being lazy" by Bella Dane
"How I Self-Study New Subjects: The Modern Autodidact System" by Sam Rinko
"How to Think On Paper (Become a Genius-Level Thinker)" by Craig Perry
"How to do everything you want in your twenties" by JW Meditations
"an extravert's guide to talking to strangers" by april & the fool
"ChatGPT Dads" by Aubrey Hirsch
"this is how you can properly manage your multiple interests" by Craig Perry
"An extremely non-comprehensive list of how to increase your surface area for luck and magic (and instantly sprinkle fairy dust on your life)" by The Twelfth House
Young Adult & Children's
Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia
The Siren, the Song, and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Classics
Middlemarch by George Eliot
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Stoner by John Williams
Julius by Daphne Du Maurier
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurty
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Matilda by Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Mythology
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Fantasy
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Dianna Wynne Jones
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
The Book of Three by Alexander Lloyd
The Truth by Terry Pratchett
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolf
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Alanna: The Adventure by Tamora Pierce
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
Innamorata by Ava Reid
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Poetry
Born Palestinian, Born Black by Suheir Hammand
Translated Fiction
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
Plays/Scripts
Gallathea by John Lyly
The Fever by Wallace Shawn
General Fiction
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen
Boys in the Valley by Phillip Fracassi
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Before the Fact by Francis Iles
Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Now I Surrender by Ălvaro Enrigue
Treat Them as Buffalo by Blair Palmer Yoxall
Comics & Graphic Novels
Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative by Will Eisner
Doom Patrol by Rachel Pollack Omnibus by Rachel Pollack
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
Fables by Bill Willingham
Literary Fiction
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
Short Stories
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
Romance
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
This book is doing a looooot a lot a lot. It's noir detective alternate history Israel slander from the Jewish perspective. Fair warning the anti-Zionism of the book, while indisputably present, is definitely going to be understated for some, even to an offensive extent. The book is more Chabon thinking through his own innate opposition to Israel, independent of the violence of the Zionist state, and more as a philosophical approach to the resolution of antisemitism. As a detective story it is quite stylish and has agreeable humor and imagination, but certainly the message and mystery go hand and hand and neither reach a complete conclusion, which will work for some and not others. I would say it worked for me, but most of my issues do come down to the almost abortive style that didn't quite flatten the characters but neglected to extend them into the realm of believability. And I'll be honest, I am so sick of the "tough girl with a masculine job who's a lesbian in every way except that she's not" thing, especially especially from male writers. I do find it offensive...but the book's not bad. This one's for Alaska lovers.
Something that tilts me about the way online culture has developed is that it feels like no one knows how to be a proper fucking provocateur anymore. Like people have been making "edgy" art for as long as the written word has existed but there is a certain social contract that comes with putting something out into the world that you know will offend people, which is that the offense is to be expected. It annoys me to no end when someone puts something out into the world that is so obviously offensive in some way shape or form and then spends all day complaining about people trying to "cancel" them or that no one respects "free expression" or that their critics are being "puritanical" or whatever. Like I'm sorry if you're going to say something obviously provocative I don't wanna hear you whining like a little bitch baby when people are provoked. Cause like no shit my guy what did you think was going to happen????
i keep seeing people talking about a lesbian movie coming out like ânot everything for lesbians has to be good let us have corny cheesy bad movies!â but like can we have a good movie. like can we have a good movie for once
The thing about rewatching riverdale in an ai-dominated world is that you really do appreciate that everything on my television screen truly was handcrafted by a criminally insane inspired gay cinephile
The Zach/Bryce shipping is misogynoir letâs be realâŠone of them is a misogynist and the other is clearly in love with someone else but itâs âthey need to leave the girls alone and be with each other!â Like yes #deportzach but thatâs so backhanded towards Trinity
âoh but krypto already had an animated seriesâ you know that makes it so much worse right. they thought supermanâs DOG was more deserving of an animated series than Wonder Woman. TWICE. you know, the other third of DCâs Trinity? probably the most recognizable female superhero of all time ? that Wonder Woman?
